Has anyone ever used the Kid’s Hymn Project book or cd? If so, what did you think? We are not a family that is very familiar with hymns in general, so I am not quite sure where to begin.
We use Hymns for A Kids’s Heart -we started using it when my oldest of my five kids was about 8. There are four (or maybe five) books in the series. Each book comes with a CD that has beautiful music and singing. There are 12 hymns in each book that has color pictures in it. There is a story about the hymn writer to go along with each hymn as well. You can look at it here:
I’m not familiar with that one but wanted to share how we learn hymns (8 kids ages 12 years to 10 mos). We simply sing them every day for a month. We have hymn books for those who can read to sing along, while little ones listen and learn a phrase at a time usually. I introduce the song by reading it aloud, then each day if we’re focusing on a particular verse I read just that one aloud. That’s it. I’m all for keeping things simple! A few songs with more than 2-3 verses we’ve taken more than a month on, while others are learned by all much faster than a month. We try to keep singing the ones we’ve learned regularly but I really need to make a list so I can just go down the list each day for one old song to sing alongside the new one we’re learning.